History at Spring Bank
At Spring Bank Primary pupils enjoy learning about people’s lives and lifestyles in the recent and more distant past.
Key Stage One
Pupils enjoy learning about how children’s toys and homes have changed over time. They learn about seaside holidays in the past and significant events such as the Fire of London. They enjoy listening to stories, using CD Roms and learn how to ask questions using historical sources.
Key Stage Two
People enjoy learning about changes in their own area, in Britain and in other parts of the world. They enjoy studying aspects of British History such as the Vikings, Tudors, Victorians and Britain since 1930. They also study the civilisations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt. They learn how to use dates and vocabulary to describe the passing of time and use a range of sources of information including ICT to find out about the past, communicating their findings in different ways.
Y1 Summer Term Newsletter
23 April 2012
Dear Parents,
Welcome back to school. It was lovely to see so many parents at the Year 1 Class Assembly last week. All the children did a wonderful job and we are very proud of them. This letter is to tell you about the work we will be covering within the curriculum this year. Any resources or expertise you may have that would enhance the children’s learning in any of these areas would be much appreciated. Read More…
DT at Spring Bank
Children are involved in Design and Technology activities throughout their time at Spring Bank. They acquire and develop skills in a range of areas and apply these to situations where they need to design, make and evaluate their own products. Areas covered include:
- Food technology – from fruit salads in Year 1 through to biscuits in Year 5.
- Textiles – including designing and making Joseph’s Coats in Year 2 and bags in Year 6.
- Mechanisms – creating moving pictures and moving books.
Where possible these projects are linked to other curriculum areas such as Science, Literacy, Art or Music.
Children are encouraged to explore a variety of tools and materials (both specialist products and found objects) and to make decisions about how these are used. Through careful evaluation of their work they consider any changes that were made to their original plans and how effective their product is.
Deadly 60
Please click on the link below for Deadly 60 :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/living_things/variation/play.shtml
Gym Teams win medals
Well done to our Gym teams who took part in a city wide tournament at the John Charles Sports Centre. Our Y5/6 Foundation team won silver medals, Y5/6 Advanced won bronze and all the other teams performed brilliantly. Special mention to Lily Hogkinson who came second out of 40 children in her group. Thanks to Miss Mitchell, Mrs Sanders and Mrs Lewis who have coached the children so well all year in gym club.
Harmony Week
Harmony Week was a great success where activities were focussed around different cultures. The children enjoyed working with different classes to make plasticine animals, and mod rock letters. They also learnt different styles of dance and angklung which they performed to the school.
The Year 5 Apprentice
The Year 5 Apprentice – a montage of Y5’s biscuit adverts.
Year 5 have been designing biscuits to sell to different classes. Each group was assigned a target class. They started their project with an evaluation of existing products, focussing on taste, packaging etc. Next they carried out some market research in their target class to find out which shape, colour and topping the children preferred. They looked at their results and designed a biscuit from their findings. After that, they had to give their biscuit a name, slogan and logo. They used ICT to design packaging for their biscuits and they also filmed an advert to persuade their target class to buy them. After making one test batch of biscuits they were able to calculate how much it cost them to make one biscuit. They were then able to set the price of their biscuit and calculate how much profit they were likely to make. Finally, it was time to sell their biscuits! All groups sold out, and we made a class profit of £42.50. We haven’t yet decided how to spend it!
Let us know what you thought of the biscuits their tastes, packaging and prices, or if you have any thoughts on how we could spend our profits.
Please check out our video by clicking on the link below:
https://www.radiowaves.co.uk/story/366274/title/biscuitsinyear5
